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surveying
surveying method of determining accurately points and lines of direction (bearings) on the earth's surface and preparing from them maps or plans. Boundaries, areas, elevations, construction lines, and geographical or artificial features are determined by the measurement of horizontal and vertical... Read more |
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Gravity surveying
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Survey services (Geodesy)
The Coast and Geodetic Survey Source Measuring the United States.Established in 1807 and known as the United States Coast Survey until 1880, the Coast and Geodetic Survey was primarily involved in geodesy, or geodetic measurement, the survey of large land areas in... Read more |
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Social movements
Social MovementsI. TYPES AND FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTSRudolf HeberleII. THE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTSJoseph R. GusfieldThe articles under this heading survey and analyze the general features of social movements and describe various approaches to their study. Specific movements and types of... Read more |
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Sample Surveys
Sample SurveysI. The FieldW. Edwards DemingRegression estimatorsBIBLIOGRAPHYII. Nonprobability SamplingAlan StuartBIBLIOGRAPHYThere is hardly any part of statistics that does not interact in some way with the theory or the practice of sample surveys. The differences between the study of sample... Read more |
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Clarence King
Clarence King 1842-1901, American geologist, b. Newport, R.I., grad. Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1862. After serving as a volunteer assistant in the California state geological survey (1863-65, 1866), he persuaded Congress to appropriate funds for the Fortieth Parallel Survey (1867-72), of... Read more |
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William Barton Rogers
William Barton Rogers 1804-82, American geologist and educator, b. Philadelphia, grad. William and Mary, 1822. He was professor of geology at William and Mary (1828-35) and at the Univ. of Virginia (1835-53) and headed the Virginia geological survey. Rogers was the founder of the Massachusetts... Read more |
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Paul F Lazarsfeld
Paul F. Lazarsfeld , 1901-76, American sociologist, b. Vienna. After beginning as a mathematician, he established a research center for social psychology. Emigrating to the United States in 1933, he taught at Columbia Univ. (1949-69), where he founded the Bureau of Applied Social Research.... Read more |
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SETI
SETI [ S earch for E xtra T errestrial I ntelligence], name given to a series of independent programs to detect radio signals from civilizations beyond the solar system. Modern SETI efforts can be dated from 1959 when Cornell Univ. physicists Giuseppi Cocconi and Philip Morrison pointed out the... Read more |
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Survey finds US Jewish population shrinking, aging, intermarrying
...by the United Jewish Communities, found a total Jewish...Jewish age was 37. The survey found that while far...reported in the 1990 survey was calculated using...According to the survey, 96% of children...intermarried. As in past surveys, Jews were found to...educated than the average ... |
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Survey: Teen Drug, Alcohol Use Down
...2001-02 Pride Survey, released Wednesday...history of the Pride Surveys. The results...Following 9/11, Americans seemed to refocus on family, community, spirituality and nation," said survey author Thomas J...their lives and communities more seriously...to drugs." The survey ... |
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Survey: public health workers not personally prepared for emergencies.(Survey)
...to an informal survey conducted by APHA...emergency. While the American Red Cross recommends that Americans have at least a...plans for their communities. And among survey...the message that Americans need to be better...developing the survey, advising on its...structure. To ... |
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AMC SURVEY RANKS TOP MUSIC PROGRAMS.
...amenities -- but Americans know that one...of life in a community is to look at how that community works to develop...education. In this survey, and in future surveys, we hope to...find that more communities want to take...future." "The survey demonstrates...teachers in the ... |
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Survey includes gay query
...attitudes: The 2012 survey includes all permanent...for inclusion in the survey, and Office of Personnel...been no comprehensive surveys. "It's percolating in the research community," said Jonathan Foley...which administers the survey. "If you don't ask...Census does not ask ... |
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Survey results of society membership: The face of our profession at the...
...spring of 1999, the American Meteorological Society...membership since the 1993 survey results were published...The format of the 1999 survey was designed to logically...since 1975. The 1999 survey was broken into six...followed the previous surveys from 1993 and 1990 to...sectors of the ... |
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Survey of College Freshmen Finds Rise in Volunteerism; Students Becoming More...
...nation's largest annual survey of college freshmen...been in decades. The survey, an important gauge...interests, issues in American society, and their...most by the rise of community service. About 72 percent...require, students to do community work. "There is clearly... |
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Survey shows teen drug, alcohol use lowest in a decade; New focus on family:...
...2001-02 Pride Survey said.The percentage...history of the Pride Surveys. The results...Following 9/11, Americans seemed to refocus on family, community, spirituality and nation," said survey author Thomas J...their lives and communities more seriously...to drugs." The survey ... |
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And the survey says ...(FEDERAL DATELINE)
...well with their local communities. In the highest rating...Education Next-PEPG Survey of Public Opinion. This survey painted a more negative...featuring a finding that Americans think less of their...departments and post offices. Survey Disparities How could two surveys with similar ... |
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NEWS SURVEY ON COUNCIL CALLED BIASED BY LAWMAKERS
...questionnaires returned from community leaders, government...put down the African-American members of the Common...Council with all of the survey information received...Light responded that the survey speaks for itself and...newspaper's second such survey in five years. He added...release ... |